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category international | miscellaneous | other press author Sunday October 07, 2007 16:03author by Guy de Cervens Report this post to the editors

All over the US hysteria is rising that they are going to be nuked and invaded by Al Qaeda agents posing as Mexicans. Are they just paranoid or could they be catching a glimpse of their future? Remember, just coz they’re paranoid doesn’t mean we’re not out to get them!
Could this be what Al Qaeda has in store for the US
Could this be what Al Qaeda has in store for the US

They say (not me):

Hugo Chavez has threatened to unleash an army of operatives already inside the United States, if the U.S. attacks Iran.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_I...55528

MS-13, which most likely helped smuggle into America the 'army of operatives' Chavez has threatened to unleash, is the most violent gang in the United States, numbering in the tens of thousands. At one point they were reported to be in over 3,500 U.S. cities. Approximately 70,000 more are in Central America where many receive paramilitary training, and from the sound of things, have been sneaking in by the thousands from Mexico into the United States.

http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/4144

Hezbollah militia has taken root in South America, fostering a well-financed force of Islamist radicals boiling with hatred for the United States and ready to die to prove it

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17874369/

http://www.washingtontimes.com/article/20070808/NATION/.../1001

An Al Qaeda Web site is running a warning issued to Muslims to leave Washington, New York and Los Angeles because of implied imminent attacks.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_I...52018

Once Bin Laden's suitcase nukes and missile warheads are laying waste to a few key cities, MS-13 and other gangs will probably become involved. They may attack police stations in the suburbs and small towns across the United States, and start killing Americans by the thousands. With troops and National Guard tied down in Iraq, there isn’t much of a military to defend the US.

Fact or fiction? Time will tell.

As Hugo Chavez said..... "Inshallah!"

author by Tpublication date Sun Oct 07, 2007 17:41author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Yes, they are, but it is all hyped up by the government. If there is a nuclear attack, you can be sure it will be carried out by the US state to complete transition to the Police State. It just like the buildup to the Iraq war, lots of fakes lies and disinformation to justify the war. And now that the propaganda second time around has been a bit harder to swallow to justify the Iran war which they desparately want to start, we have all this stuff about nuclear attacks.

author by davekeypublication date Sun Oct 07, 2007 18:15author address author phone Report this post to the editors

This is just more media/neo-con propoganda to try and scare the population in to submission. They are just waiting for the opportunity to bring in continuity of government i.e. a police state.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=6169

author by pat cpublication date Sun Oct 07, 2007 18:30author address author phone Report this post to the editors

This just a wind up. Utter nonsense.

Anyway Chavez wouldnt say Inshallah, he'd say ante agrado Dios.

author by Guy de Cervenspublication date Tue Oct 09, 2007 02:05author address author phone Report this post to the editors

President Chavez used the word 'Inshallah' according to the Washington Post and BBC Monitoring:

"Bolivar said that day: 'God, if you have justice, throw a lightning bolt at the monsters,' " Chávez pronounced. "I would say today: 'God, throw the lightning bolts at the monsters.' Inshallah ."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20....html

Other News
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASQ-J6hFALI

http://counterterrorismblog.org/site-resources/images/D...t.pdf

The Real Terrorists
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id8nNOOmE1Y

author by Sagepublication date Tue Oct 09, 2007 10:02author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The old mechanisms of 'control over' have been instilled and used largely by the Politico/Religionists from time immemorial.

Basically by the use of fear of death, fear of not reaching heaven, fear of dark forces, fear of strangers, fear of failure, etc. etc. ad infinitum.

Keep up the pressure and eventually the controllers are able to manipulate a group or population, by installing rules to maintain their status quo.

Why?

The USA is collapsing from within and in order to avoid getting to grips with it's internal problems. The easiest solution is to blame exterior and unknown forces and who better than those of Islam.

What we are seeing in tthe Middle East is a recreation of an earlier war known as The Crusades.

author by seánpublication date Tue Oct 09, 2007 11:15author address author phone Report this post to the editors

"The USA is collapsing from within and in order to avoid getting to grips with it's internal problems. The easiest solution is to blame exterior and unknown forces and who better than those of Islam."

Since when is Chavez/Venezuela Islamic?

author by Sagepublication date Tue Oct 09, 2007 13:22author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Seán,
The references at the start are also

"http://www.washingtontimes.com/article/20070808/NATION/.../1001

An Al Qaeda Web site is running a warning issued to Muslims to leave Washington, New York and Los Angeles because of implied imminent attacks.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_I...52018

Once Bin Laden's suitcase nukes and missile warheads are laying waste to a few key cities, MS-13 and other gangs will probably become involved. ......"

It was thus to those gentlemen I was in part referring however.... and
Fear is the tool used by control freaks!

Yours sincerely,
Sage

author by Guy de Cervenspublication date Tue Oct 09, 2007 16:20author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Nobody suggested Hugo had converted to Islam or was talking about an Islamic Venezuela. He did use the word Inshallah and he did point out the the West seems bent on blaming its own failings on Islam- Classic projection.

author by kaypublication date Tue Oct 09, 2007 17:53author email lovebabykay1000 at hotmail dot comauthor address author phone Report this post to the editors

...because if America is attacked using nuclear means, they will surely retaliate in kind. This means that it is effectively the end of the world. At a guess I would say this is more islamofascist propaganda designed to scare everyone. If Al Qaeda or other crazy people had nukes, they would have used them by now. As far back as one year after 9/11 there were chain emails going around to this effect.

Shalom my brothers and sisters.

Kay

author by A10publication date Wed Oct 10, 2007 22:03author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Spending 6.5 plus Million dollars on a suitcase nuke which has all the power to take out say;the golden gate bridge, or downtown Manhattan. When for appx 100,000 dollars you can train a bunch of fanatics in Iraq,arm them with box cutters ,take over five aircraft,and create mayhem??? AQ might be rich,but they are not daft with their money either.
Or simply hit the oil production facilities of Saudi,Russia,Venezula,the Alaskan pipeline,the Trans Caucassus line and orchestrate a blockage of the Hormuz straights??
All very vunerable,easy to do and a lot cheaper than going around the world hunting what most people in the know rate as either Govt intelligence agencies sting operations or a mythical creature,the saleable nuke.The West and the rest of the infidels could be choked by doing somthing like the above scenario,but the kickback on the rest of the World would be terrible

Well,if they did do a nuke strike...I would say a very quick investment by the rest of the world in canned food and shotguns would be adviseable.Not to mind sun block in the 16million factor as well .

author by Nodinpublication date Mon Oct 15, 2007 09:41author address author phone Report this post to the editors


No "terror" suspect has entered the US via mexico. Not a one.

A suitcase bomb, though impressive in fiction, would be a waste of time and resources, as a previous poster has pointed out. This is more whining and fear mongering - this time perhaps not to talk up a war, so much as fearing the chickens coming home to roost.

author by Scepticpublication date Mon Oct 15, 2007 10:39author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Its not paranoia. The problem is that states can be deterred from nuclear weapons but terrorists cannot. Hence terrorists must be prevented from getting nuclear weapons in the first place at all costs. 9/11 shattered what had previously been a happy optimism or nativity that the worst would not happen. It was not that the attacks could not be conceived but rather it was though unthinkable that they would happen. Its the fear of nuclear terrorism and nuclear armed rogue regimes operating in league worth terrorist and militant non-state actors of various kinds that drove the US post 9/11 to take out Saddam and is driving the effort to prevent Iran acquiring such weapons.

Incidentally the Straits of Hormuz are fifteen miles wide and terrorists would not easily close them, unless Oman became a failed state. Even Iran might not be able to close the straits so long as they were well defended. The Iranian regime did not seriously try this during the 1980 to 1988 war though they would have dearly loved to. That was a successful deterrence.

author by Osama bin Laughing - Al CIA-DUH!publication date Mon Oct 15, 2007 18:15author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Septic said :
An Al Qaeda Web site is running a warning issued to Muslims to leave Washington, New York and Los Angeles because of implied imminent attacks.

Pretty hilarious considering the last time I heard of a warning posted on an 'Islamist' website, it turned out that the website was hosted in ARIZONA

Domain ID:D104231626-LROR
Domain Name:AL-HESBAH.ORG
Created On:15-Apr-2004 14:06:18 UTC
Last Updated On:10-May-2007 09:27:05 UTC
Expiration Date:15-Apr-2008 14:06:18 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:Wild West Domains, Inc. (R120-LROR)
Status:CLIENT DELETE PROHIBITED
Status:CLIENT RENEW PROHIBITED
Status:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED
Status:CLIENT UPDATE PROHIBITED
Registrant ID:GODA-06221929
Registrant Name:Registration Private
Registrant Organization:Domains by Proxy, Inc.
Registrant Street1:DomainsByProxy.com
Registrant Street2:15511 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Registrant Street3:
Registrant City:Scottsdale
Registrant State/Province:Arizona
Registrant Postal Code:85260
Registrant Country:US
Registrant Phone:+1.4806242599
Registrant Phone Ext.:
Registrant FAX:
Registrant FAX Ext.:
Registrant Email:AL-HESBAH.ORG@domainsbyproxy.com
Admin ID:GODA-26221929
Admin Name:Registration Private
Admin Organization:Domains by Proxy, Inc.
Admin Street1:DomainsByProxy.com
Admin Street2:15511 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Admin Street3:
Admin City:Scottsdale
Admin State/Province:Arizona
Admin Postal Code:85260
Admin Country:US

The above website was supposedly the website on which 'Islamists' posted warning about the failed London car-bombs and Glasgow Airport Flaming Cherokee

See:
http://www.google.com/search?&q=ALHESBAH.ORG%20glasgow%...ondon

author by Scepticpublication date Mon Oct 15, 2007 18:33author address author phone Report this post to the editors

it was Guy de Cervens who wrote about an AQ website warning people to leave various cities, not me. I would not place any credence on such reports. But people are right to be concerned about the issue of nuclear terrorism at least in the long term and the only reliable option in the face of that threat is preemption.

author by Osama Laffin - NSApublication date Mon Oct 15, 2007 19:51author address author phone Report this post to the editors

My apologies Sceptic, it is to the nom de plume 'Guy de Cervens' I should be addressing my remarks

Guy de Cervens':
From what you have posted above I presume those are your own words and not quotes from some fool journo working for WorldNetDaily, that well known purveyor of truthful accurate reportage, or some other propaganda disseminator

For example, paragraph 14 of the WorldNet article ( http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_I...52018 ) states:
In 1995, the Shukrijumah family relocated to Miramar, Fla., where Gulshair became the spiritual leader of the radical Masjid al-Hijah Mosque, and where Adnan became friends with Jose Padilla, who planned to detonate a radiological bomb in midtown Manhattan;

Now as far as I know despite the thousands of column inches in newsprint, and the millions of minutes in broadcast media devoted to the dessimination of the notion the Padilla was about to explode a 'dirty-bomb' absolutely NO evidence was ever produced to back up that charge. Indeed the US Gov't did their best to avoid every oppurtunity afforded to them to substantiate the chage in a court of law.

Similarly your own post appears to support the ridiculous notion:

Once Bin Laden's suitcase nukes and missile warheads are laying waste to a few key cities, MS-13 and other gangs will probably become involved. They may attack police stations in the suburbs and small towns across the United States, and start killing Americans by the thousands. With troops and National Guard tied down in Iraq, there isn’t much of a military to defend the US.

if those words are a quote you do not place them in quotes so I have to presume they are at least echoing you own beliefs

So I have a couple of questions for you:

1) How do you know Bin Laffin has 'suitcase nukes'?

2) Why would MS-13 become involved in a nukje attack on the US?

3) Do you believe everything WorldNet daily puts out?

author by Billpublication date Wed Nov 07, 2007 20:53author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The bombs will explode. Al Qaeda does not bluff! I suggest everyone finds a deep hole to hide in until its over. I can see this getting very nasty.

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